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49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% reported using chatbots daily, and 44% reported using ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 18, 2026

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Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA fast-track regulatory process for digital health technologies such as AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Will Apple (finally) get AI at WWDC?, Anthropic’s concern, Microsoft vs. OpenAI The Big Technology…

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Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Moderators of the subreddit r/biohackers claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in the…

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Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice…

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Palantir software demonstrations and DOD recordings show how the military can use AI chatbots, including the types of queries and data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

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Apple adds support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving CarPlay users access to apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 18, 2026

Julie Clover / MacRumors: Apple is adding support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving…

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Malaysia becomes second country to limit access to Grok, after Indonesia, due to chatbot’s generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: What OpenAI and Google engineers learned from deploying more than 50 AI products into production Interviews…

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Italian antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar WhatsApp’s access to competing AI chatbots; Meta calls the decision "fundamentally flawed" (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 24, 2025

Elvira Pollina / Reuters: Italian antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar WhatsApp’s access to competing AI…

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Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

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How Ideology-Focused AI Chatbots Like Grok and Gab’s Arya Are Positioning themselves as Alternatives to Traditional Chatbots Accused of Liberal Bias (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

New York Times: How Ideology-Focused AI Chatbots Like Grok and Gab’s Arya Are Positioning themselves as Alternatives to Traditional Chatbots…

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daily volume on Polymarket’s U.S. platform increased from around $50 million in mid-May to more than $200 million as of June 20 (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

Streaming services must comply with a California law that prohibits showing ads at a louder volume than the content being watched starting July 1, but its implementation is unclear (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

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Insurance technology startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark’s open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Browsing: chatbots

49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% reported using chatbots daily, and 44% reported using ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)

Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA fast-track regulatory process for digital health technologies such as AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Filing: OpenAI asks UK CMA to include search-enabled AI chatbots in Google’s default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Palantir software demonstrations and DOD recordings show how the military can use AI chatbots, including the types of queries and data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

Apple adds support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving CarPlay users access to apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Malaysia becomes second country to limit access to Grok, after Indonesia, due to chatbot’s generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)

Italian antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar WhatsApp’s access to competing AI chatbots; Meta calls the decision "fundamentally flawed" (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)

Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)

How Ideology-Focused AI Chatbots Like Grok and Gab’s Arya Are Positioning themselves as Alternatives to Traditional Chatbots Accused of Liberal Bias (New York Times)